PowerHYDE is the world's first carbon positive home for the homeless. Designed for the 200 million rural homeless in India, powerHYDE ensures that when these are homes, they do not ad negatively to the environment and become a burden for other infrastructure provisions such as electricity, water and waste. Each powerHYDE produces four times the amount of energy it needs for itself, the additional energy is sold to power other communal facilities and generating additional income for the inhabitants.

A cluster of 170 powerHYDE homes is a mini power plant generating 1 mega watt of energy.

'PowerHYDE' combines through one solution the enormous demand for housing (40 million rural homes in India), the increasing need of sustainable energy (300%) and sustainable financial model. The daunting numbers and lack of financing have paralysed construction of homes for the poor. We developed a house as a product that produces more energy than its own usage and generates its own income. and is easy to assemble and adaptable to different cultural, regional and climatic conditions.The powerHYDE is modular and the system of the house allows vertically and/or horizontally expansion to meet the demand of growing families. Passive and active sustainability measures have been combined to meet the needs of fossil free energy production and zero impact water re-use and circulair waste treatment.